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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Pop Up Cube Revisited!

Hello bloggists and welcome!

One of my earliest YouTube projects was a pop-up cube card. I'm fascinated by kinetic and pop-up cards and paper engineering in general, and I was dead pleased to find instructions for this sort of project.

That was almost two years ago. My channel has grown since then and I hope that I've learned something as well. At the time I was only posting once a week and the camera I was using wasn't the best. I wanted to revisit the project to try and make it a bit easier.

The tricky part is getting the elastic that makes it pop into position. The original instructions said to sew it into place but that was fiddly - and also created a weak spot right where you needed strength.

When I made the Baby Shower card, I wondered if the method used to hold the elastic in place would work on the popup cube - and it does!

Thank you so much for creating the video and the template...they were so helpful! I used different materials in my project as I wanted to create a birthday version. I added a picture of the birthday girl to one side plus to the other sides I added her age and initials using framelits and also a butterfly thinlit. I hope she'll like it!

Hi Karen, love the popping cube! I watched your video a while ago and have finally gotten the chance to make it today, yay! However, when I clicked the lick to get the measurements for the outside box to slip the cube into it said I had to sign up to something called Dropbox? Is this correct? I wasn't sure if was really necessary or just someone trying to send spam into my computer.

Thank you Karen for replying so quickly! I'm good to download Dropbox just as long as it is a legitimate site. I've had troubles in the past with unwanted Trojans and things coming in on programs I wasn't familiar with. Thanks for the info, I've already made 2 cubes - one for my mum and one for my niece. Now I can finish them and post the off tomorrow. 💜 your work, thanks so much for sharing.